In an effort to get out the yoof vote, the Electoral Commission has announced that they will be ‘texting’ the young people to let them know that they can register to vote ‘online‘. The Commission are using a joint venture by the UK mobile operators EE, O2 and Vodafone called ‘Weve’, that will allow them to target 18-24 year olds with their futuristics adverts.

This of course means that users of the Three network will not be receiving reminders that they can register to vote. That would be the dirt cheap Three network popular with broke young people.

Quote of the Day

Dr Alexander Kogan, the app developer who originally harvested the Facebook data, said…

“I think what Cambridge Analytica has tried to sell is magic and made claims this is incredibly accurate and it tells you everything there is to tell about you. But I think the reality is it’s not that. If you sit down and you really work through the statistics and you think what does a correlation of point three means, those claims quickly fall apart. And that’s something any person with a statistical background can go and do.”